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Italy Shows How Amazon Can be Forced to Bargain: Shut Down its Distribution

Credit: Giuseppe Picconetti

Amazon is huge and powerful, but Italian workers have shown it can be forced to negotiate. Could US workers do the same?

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There Is No Future for a Labor Movement That Fails to Organize at Amazon

Credit: Calvin Priest

In the 20th century, organizing basic industries like coal, steel, and manufacturing automobiles was key to reviving the labor movement. Today, Amazon workers occupy the same strategic position.

On the battle lines

  • SeaTac Airport workers on the march to demand union recognition.

  • ‘No money no parcels’: Italian Amazon workers on strike. Credit: Filt Cgil Roma Lazio

  • SeaTac Airport workers pack City Hall demanding $15 and a union.

  • Kentucky Amazon workers march for translation right at work. Credit: Calvin Priest

  • At Amazon's KCVG air cargo hub, Northern Kentucky

  • On the march at SeaTac Airport. Credit: Jonathan Lawson

  • Kentucky Amazon organizers

  • Clergy and workers march in SeaTac. Credit: Jonathan Lawson

  • Kentucky Amazon organizers’ meeting

  • CAUSE Amazon organizers in Garner, North Carolina

  • Fighting for rent control in Seattle City Hall

  • Italian Amazon workers on strike in Bologna. Credit: Giuseppe Picconetti

  • Justice for George Floyd protest, Seattle, June 2020

  • Kshama Sawant at Black Lives Matter, June 2020

  • Seattle City Hall, occupied during Black Lives Matter movement, June 2020

  • Tax Amazon now! Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Sr. and other Seattle clergy rally with Kshama Sawant (2nd from left)

  • Rally for Palestine, Seattle, 2021

  • Striking carpenter Nina Wurz, 2021

  • Renee Gordon at rent control press conference, 2021

  • Kailyn Nicholson at Amazon Spheres

  • Tiny House Village community members with Kshama Sawant, at City Hall budget mobilization

  • Budget rally in City Hall

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